Crystal Morrison

“Well, I am so sensitive and I am very fragile but so is everything else, and living with a dangerous amount of sensitivity is sort of what I have to do sometimes, and it is so very much better than living with no gusto at all. And I’d rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all of the other hearts.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Why did the guys need this? This wasn't a matter of courage, it was just dirty play.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“We are not so narrowly defined as society would have us believe. Yet the limits placed on our appetites, talents, and potential are implanted in us when we are children - too young to recognized the prisons built with words. We could blame it all on our families, but then we'd never find the keys to unlock our cells. The awful genius of our confinement is that we are both the prisoner and the warden. We tell ourselves daily that we aren't free to do this or that because we are this or that. To escape such limited thinking, we don't have to look far. The keys are in our pocket.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

“Spring had come. My former depression had completely gone, and was replaced by the dreamy spring melancholy of vague hopes and desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness and Other Stories